Articles By: Emily Balistrieri

Party: GameCock Puts Out for Austin GDC

Tweet If the decreased number of sexy chicks at recent industry events has got you down, you can count on GameCock to pile them on after hours. We were fortunate enough to get an invite to their party at Fado Irish Pub this past Thursday night. I think they may have mentioned games…once or twice, [...]

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GameCock Media & Blazing Lizard Studios Announce Pirates VS. Ninjas Dodgeball

Tweet The Internet has put in some long hard hours on the issue, but Blazing Lizard’s first game promises to solve it once and for all—Pirates or Ninjas? Yes, Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball should do the trick. But how exciting can dodgeball get?

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Preview: Rhythm ‘n Notes For The Nintendo DS

Tweet Frankly, I’m just fascinated by this kid’s hair, standing up on his head like a pair of antlers. Are they pigtails? It’s hard to say. We’ll go with yes. SHE is the mascot of Rhythm ‘n Notes, a new pseudo-game taking on the task of developing musical tendencies. The software is split into two [...]

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Picross DS Review

Tweet Nintendo tried to do the Picross thing once before back in 1995 with Mario’s Picross for Gameboy. It didn’t really go over very well, which is probably why I didn’t know whether it was pronounced “pih-cross” or “pie-cross”– for the record, the former. After the uber explosion of Sudoku in the states, though, they’ve [...]

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pixeljam Fundraiser: Huge Transformers Auction

Tweet If you haven’t visited pixeljam’s awesome website yet, well, you’d better get over there. Not only have they made some great free browser games in a delicious retro flavor, such as Gamma Bros. and Rat Maze 2, but their whole site is beautiful and interactive as well. The guys behind it are terrific fellows [...]

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The Not-Quite Live Blog: Nintendo E3 ’07

Tweet Here are our unpolished thoughts on Nintendo’s press conference. For everything else, check out our wrap-up later this week. Reggie is happy! E3 ’07 as coming out party. Video games take their place by movies and TY as a staple of entertainment. 69% of growth overall comes from Nintendo (Microsoft, 2%) At the moment [...]

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Take Your DS Out to the Ball Game

Tweet Buy it some peanuts and cracker jacks, or better yet: let it buy them for you. Engadget keyed us in to the new Nintendo Fan Network being tested first at Safeco Field, the home stadium of the Seattle Mariners. Beyond just ordering food for delivery straight to your seat, those who download the program [...]

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Pocket Gamers: PC Games Served Up Mobile-Style via Vollee

Tweet Sounds a little bit like a magic trick, but soon your PC games — MMO’s included — may be available piped through your 3G able mobile device. How exactly Vollee does it is one of those mysteries of the universe, but they are licensing games to essentially port (though the process is different, faster, [...]

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